SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe Why can't we fly a plane into space2 months ago
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What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX's race to put people into orbit and the organization's next big project, the BFR (ask her what it stands for). The new giant rocket is designed to take humanity to Mars -- but it has another potential use: space travel for earthlings.

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Proper question is:"How can we build synergy between humanity's needs here on earth and space exploration to achieve both more efficiently?" An answer to this as an example is: "building more efficient cities here on earth in our extreme environments (desert, mountains, north/south poles, at/under sea) to support our growing world's population which will helps us at the same time understand how to build cities on other planets."

That's an understatement, She has a point about many companies invested in earth things but not the massive potential of other solar systems. The problem is mostly wealthy nations and corporations that may get the upper hand.

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Why can't we fly a plane into space SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe2 months ago
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Why can’t we fly a plane into space, what stops it from just flying higher and higher until we are in space?, sounds like a daft question but it has interesting implications that mean we might not be that far from a plane that can fly into space.

Well, there several issues but assuming we are in something like a normal jet airliner, then one of the main problems is the air, or lack of it as we get closer to space. A plane flies because as it is propelled forward, the wings, which are shaped to make the air flow faster over the top of them than the bottom, generate lift. As the plane goes faster the wings create more lift and when the lift is greater than the weight of the plane, it will climb up into the air. For our plane to continue to climb it needs more speed to increase the lift. If you throttle back on the speed a bit, the plane will settle in to level flight and if you decrease the speed the plane will start to fall as lift from the wings is not enough to overcome the weight of the plane.